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PAGE TWO THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON, 8. C. THURSDAY. AUGUST 21, 1924 (Political Advertisement) J. L. M. IRBY Candidate For Clerk of Court of 'l^aurens County. His Qualifications Set Forth in His Campaign Speech Delivered at Poplar Springs Aug. 18. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: As the first candidate to address you, an honor not bestowed but one of rotation, I hope to blaze the trail and one I assure you the others will follow, a trail not through the dark and muddy waters but one in the open and upon a high plain. It is a privilege and a pleasure to appear before any audience in Lau rens county and 1 feel as no stranger amongst you. My people have been in your midst since before the days of the Revolu tionary War and have been -your friends and good citizens ever since. The good people of Laurens coun ty have been kind to my family. You have honored them on every occasion they have come before you and I as sure you they appreciated jit with a love second to no man. I inherited an ambition to. serve and be honored by you and I am seek ing the office I arfi best equipped to fill. I have no public record, but one as a private citizen I am proud of and you should be—for it has reflected honor upon you whether in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida or Germany—for at no time did I forget that you are judged by those that go from amongst you. I conducted myself as every good citi zen of Laurens county should. As a young boy, in order to obtain an education, I stood a competitive examination and won a scholarship to the Citadel, graduating there in 1906 in civil engineering, that pro fession causing me to work away from you. In 1908 I started to work to also learn the timber end of the business, starting at the botton again on a salary of $f)0.00 per month, and in 1911 when I resigned to come home to read law I was drawing $2,500.00 a year and expenses. After staying home three months my people tele graphed me to come to Charleston at their expense. Upon arrival they said they couldn’t do without me and to name what conditions I would return for. In this work I had to look up records and became familiar in many clerks of court offices. In 1317 I again resigned to help raise two companies of volunteers for immediate service in France. Gen eral Wood thought so much of the personnel of our outfit that he put us in the Rainbow Division as their en gineers and I want to say to you that from this section and other parts of South Carolina I went with as fine a bunch of men as ever trod the soil or crossed the briny deep. My friends, my comrades have honored me on every occasion possi ble. In the organization of the Vet erans of the Rainbow Division I was elected by the men as the chairman of our regimental delegation. I sat also in the chair at the organization of the South Carolina chapter of the Rainbow Veterans and in Columbia, July past—I was elected by acclama tion their president for this year. Returning home from Germany the boys in my company, to show their love and esteem, presented me with a handsonueTset of silver, a gift I look upon as my greatest treasure. Now, my friends, to the real issue in this race—“Rotation in office.’\ Are you going to say, by your bal lot, that in 32 years there are only two meirTit to be your clerk? Are you going to stifle ‘ the ambition of that boy or that girl by saying to them that only a very few can serve or be honored by you ? Be careful, my friends, for it’s from communities like this that your leaders come and have come since this was a country. The boys and girls of today are your statesmen tomorrow. Are you going to flash to the rest of the state, “an ex-soldier again goes down in defeat. Laurens county will not have them to serve her.” Are you going to scratch my name, one who stood on the firing line in every battle fought by the American army and helped say to the Germans, “You shall not pass," and vote for one whom you have already honored as your clerk of court for 16 years, or another you have honored 6 years as your auditor and 12 years as your clerk ? You, my friends, are the jury. Upon this issue of rotation and this record, I offer my services and ask you to honor me. It was intimated by one of the can didates that I have brought my war record into the campaign to which I reply: I don’t want my opponents of the people of Laurens county to think I am trying to ride my war record into the clerk’s office. 1 entered the war because l thought it was my duty and I wanted to serve you. It was at a financial loss. I was above the draft age, was turned down physically for bad eye-sight, but General Wood waived that on ac count of my being a good engineer and officer. The people of Laurens county ewe me nothing for it. I mention part of my business ca reer and war record because I have no public record to refer to, and I am to be judged in the future by the suc cess I have shown in the past. COURSE OF STUDY FOR CITY SCHOOLS List of Text Books Given For Ap proaching Session of 1924-1925. e*. For the information of its readers who are patrons of the city schools, The Chronicle prints today the list of text books, grade by grade, for the new school session opening Sep tember 1st. First Grade Child’s World Primer and First Reader. Second Grade Child’s World Second Reader. Arnold’s Mastery of Words, Book 1. Morey’s Little Folks Number Book. Practical W’riting, Manual No. 2, Practical Drawing, Book 2. Third Grade Child’s World Third Reader. Arnold’s Mastery of Words, Book 1. Robbins and Row’s Work and Play With Language. Smith’s Modern Primary Arithme tic. Practical Writing, Manuel No. 3. Practical Drawing, Book 3. ' Fourth Grade ’***“ Child’s World Fourth Reader. Arnold’s Mastery of Words, Book 1. Studies in English, Book 1. s ' Smith’s Modern Primary Arithme tic. Bingham and McFarleane’s Essen tials of Geography, First Book. Fifth Grade Child’s World Fifth Reader. Arnold’s Mastery of Words, Book 1. Studies in English, Book 1. Smith’s Modern Advanced Arith metic. Practical Writing, Manual No. 5. Practical Drawing, Book 5. Sixth Grade New Elson Reader, Book 6. Arnold’s Mastery of Words, Book 2. Kinard and Withers' The English Language, Book 2. Smith’s Modern Advanced Arith metic. Brigham and McFarlane’s Essen tials of Geography, Second Book. Practical Writing, Manual No. 6. Practical Drawing, Book 6. Seventh Grade New Elson Reader, Book 7. Arnold’s Mastery of Words, Book 2. Kinard and Withers’ The English Language, Book 2. Smith’s Modern Advanced Arith metic. Brigham and McFarlane’s .Essen tials of Geography, Second Book. Practical Writing, Manual No. 7. Practical Drawing, Book 7. Eighth Grade (College Preparatory Curriculum) Ward’s Sentence and Theme. The Sketch Book. Payne’s Common Words Common ly Misspelled. Sykes-Comstock’s Beginner’s Alge bra. Caldwell and Eikenberry’s Ele ments of General Science. Smith’s Elementary Latin. Eighth Grade (General Curriculum) Ward’s Sentence and Theme. The Sketch Book. Payne’s Common Words Common ly Misspelled. Hughes’ Community Civics. Stone-Millis’ Arithmetic. Caldwell and Eikenberry’s Ele ments of General Science. McCOY INDICTED ON THREE COUNTS NEVER “SOMETHING FOR NOTH ING" NEARER PERFECT BIGGER RE TURNS A SURPRISE FOR EIJAH NO POPULATION SCARE Charles Fox offers to the United States Government an engine that “consumes no gas or other fuel and runs forever." The inventor says, “You just start her up and let her flicker," and he thinks it will bring millions. It won’t bring a cent. A power wiser than Charlea-Fox, wiser even than Calvin Coolidge, won’t allow us to^get “something for nothing." That would be bad for us. Therefore, there if no perpetual motion, nothing worth hav ing, for which we don’t give effort and value in return. It pays to develop a perfect thing, from cows to radio. Mrs. H. McK Twombly, of New Jersey, owns a Guernsey named Langwater Fairy No. 97979. She looks like any other cow, but gives three times as much milk, four and a half times as much butter fat as the average cow. Her amazing record just announced is 13,605 pounds of butter fat in one year. In that kind of prosperity there is no speculation, no manipulating, just plain, simple production of wealth through intelligent attention to breeding. Daily the radio offers something new. This time it is “broadcasting church music for rural weddings.” The bride, trembling, will give the last poke at her hair, the last tug at her veil. The sexton will “tune in," and up she will march, in Farming- dale, N. J., to the tune of “Faithful and True,” played in Chicago, 111. Florida says, “Come.” The rich will answer, “I’m hurrying.” Have y®u an income? Florida offers you attractions over and above the fine climate. Florida intends to put into her constitution a provision that will exempt incomes and inheritances from all taxation. This is intended as “a courtesy to prosperous people from the North." They will appre ciate it. No death tax on inheritance^ no State tax on income! Oh, joy! Oh, rapture! Florida says, “Come to Florida. Here your income is all yours to spend. We chop off nothing and your heirs get all you leave them when you die. We won’t tax dead Ex-Pugilist la Formally Charged With Murder of Mrs. Mors. “Unbalanced," Say Police. Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 19.—The grand jury late today indicted Kid McCoy, ex-pugilist, for the murder of Mrs. Theresa W. Mors here August 12th last. He was also indicted for assault with intent to commit mur der, and for robbery. The indictment for robbery follow ed presentation of evidence of Mc-J Coy’s shooting orgy in the fashion able West Lake shopping district last ednesday, when he is accused of hav ing held up several persons in the Mors antique shop and with having shot and wounded Sam Schapp and his wife, Ann, and W. G. Ross. There were four counts on the rob bery indictment. A thrid indictment against the ex-pugalist charged him on three counts of assault with in tent to commit murder. McCoy started the day in his cell with a demonstration of what police observers termed an unbalanced mind and what alienists characterize as an attempt to sham his guilt. . . ~ The alieniste - today-declared—Mc.- Coy was sane. Today he started to paste bits of paper about his cell, pacing nervously about and mum bling that he was making a trap “for that rat Mors.” District Attorney Asa Keyes rush ed his three alienists back to the former pugalist’s cell when he heard of McCoy’s action. After observing the prisoner, two of the alienists de clared the “Kid” was feigning insan ity. w While alienists and police were try ing to determine whether McCoy was normal or insane, Mrs. Iva Martin was telling the grand jury that one of the two men she saw running from Mrs. Mors’ apartment the night the woman died was not McCoy, but Albert A. Mors, wealthy antique dealer and divorced husband of the dead woihan. The second man she could not identify or describe. Mors had preceded Mrs. Martin on the stand, tracing his movements the night his wife was shot and establish ing what investigators said was a perfect alibi. Mors testified that Mc Coy had threatened his life repeated ly. Defens ealienists also visited Mc Coy today. Sent to the city jail by the suspects’s attorneys shortly after he began one of his strange doings, Dr. R. I. Shelton found the former boxer in. no mood to be examined, he stated. According to turnkeys, McCoy threatened the doctor with violence if lie entered his cell, and it was only alter his attorneys arrived and rea soned with him that he quieted down and permitted the alienists to ques tion him. Three other physicians- will ex amine McCoy tomrrow, the defense The most important library in the world, according to the number of volumes, ia the National Library of Paris, which has 8,500,000 books. Shark flesh has always been con sidered a delicacy among the people of Japan and the Far East. attorneys announced, but no report will be made as to their findings un til the prisoner has been under obser vation for several days. FLIT The guaranteed spray for flies, mosquitoes, ants, etc. Pint cans 75c. Hand pump spray 50c. SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY a • kfl WHERE FASHIONS ORIGINATE AND STYLE PREDOMINATES 8 ■ 8 SHOWING OF Autumn Frocks of Satin, Canton Crepe, Crepe-Back ~ Satin, and Pencil Stripe Serge Hi —The newer modes in rich, dark silks and- serges? 'faebioned-on ■ lines long and slender—unbelt- ® ed or with narrow string belts, H featuring many of the newest ■ style fantasies. m | —Colors are black, navy and | brown, with black predominat- | ing. All sizes from 16 to 44. ! Early Fall I HATS j _ S —Refreshingly new are the I early Fall hats of soft, silky | panne velvets, or combinations | of velvet and satin. All the I new fashion notes are featured 8 in this first shipment of Au- J tumn, 1924, hats. 8 New, square crowned hats, J smart modifications of the clo- 5 che, flaring shapes with swirl- lg ing draperies of velvet, and m many others equally fashion- II able. In black and also in all ■ the new Fall colors. B j£ Come in and give us a look. New goods ar- S riving daily. I B. L. KING 8 SON 3 ■ The Ladies Shop men. 9t WHAT DO P. S. JEANS DO? Ninth Grade (College Preparatory Curriculum) Wards’ Sentence and Theme. . Mihel’s Short Stories for English Courses. Payne’s Common Words Common ly Misspelled. Sykes-Comstock’s Beginner’s Alge bra. Smallwood, Reveley and Bailey’s Biology. Smith’s Elemenary Latin. Ninth Grade (General Curriculum) Wards’ Sentence and Theme. Mihel’s Short Stories for English Courses. Payne’s Common Words Common ly Misspelled. Sykes-Comstock’s Beginner’s Alge bra. Smallwood, Reveley and Bailey’s Biology. Chamberlain’s Physical-Economic- Regional Geography. * Tenth Grade (College Preparatory Curriculum) Lewis and Hosie’s Practical Eng lish. Miller’s English Literature. Chew’s Practical High School Spell er. West’s Modern World. Bennett’s Cicero’s Orations. Chardenal’s Complete Course in French. Tenth Grade (General Curriculum) Lewis and Hosie’s Practical Eng lish. Miller’s English Literature. Chew’s Practical High School Speller. West’s Modern World. ♦Cook’s Practical Chemistry. ♦Sykes-Comstock’s Plane Geome try. ♦Chardenal’s Complete Course in French. Eleventh Grade V/ard’s Theme Building. Pace’s American Literature. Chew’s Practical High School Speller. Sykes-Comstock’s Plane Geometry. Stephenson’s American History. ♦Halevy’s L’Abee Constantin.- ♦Sykes-Comstock’s Solid Geome try.* ♦Bennett’s Virgil’s Aeneid. ♦Rittenhouse’s New Modern Illua trative Bookkeeping. ♦Optional. A long time ago Elisha “took hold of his own clothes and rent them in two pieces,” when he saw Elijah-go up in “a chariot of fire and horses of fire.” What are Elisha and Elijah, now in heaven, saying to each other as they 11 see the Right Reverend Harold Rob- ! erts Carson, Bishop of the Episcopal. I Diocese of Haiti, calmly riding from | one parish to another in a flying machine? The navy lends him the flying machine and he visits places otherwise inaccessible. All that men can IMAGINE they can DO. Dr. Pearl, professor of biometry and vital statistics at Johns Hopkins, says our population will be 197,000,- 000 in the year 2100. That will be our maximum and then will come a decline. With all due respect to the learned professor, any child could make as good a guess. Dr. William Allen Pusey recently told the American Medical Associa tion that population would reach 175,000,000. And “with that density of population, the pressure of exist ence will become so strong that the death rate, particularly infant mor tality, will overtake the birth rate." That is another poor guess. Under intensive cultivation, as it is now un derstood, the State of Texas alone could feed the earth’s entire popula tion, and that is at least sixteen hun dred millions. • There will be a thousand million human beings in THIS country, in finitely happier, richer, better off in every way, than any population that ever has lived. In 124 years, since 1800, our popu lation has risen from 5,000,000 to 112,000,000. What is the use of guessing what will happen in the next 120 years? It would have been im possible to guess how many people this country could feed before har vesting machinery was invented. Im possible before the arrival of the tractor. Lack of food won’t limit popula tion. Men’s brains will always pro vide for their stomachs. But a high er race will gradually produce fewer children. Disease breeding cities will be brok en up by flying machines, taking us to live on mountain tops, where there is fresh air. These 'mountains are not to be forever uninhabited. Why Dial Should be Re-elected His Record in the United States Senate shows shat he stands for: Everything that helps the farmer, the laboring man and the business man in genera^ The right of the States to regulate their own affairs, and squarely against the Federal Child Labor Amendment, which would work untold hard ship on the farmers of the State. Economy in the conduct of the Government. Prohibition, legislative and otherwise. His six years of experience as Senator will be a valuable asset to South Carolina. fi »■ . . He has always been “on the job” and will re main so as long as he is in the Senate. T ' Has any other aspirant a stronger claim on the Democrats of South Carolina? Think it over, men and women voters, and on next Tuesday— Cast your ballots for N. B. DIAL FOR RE-ELECTION to U. S. SENATE ?• ’ ) -j •